James Norcliffe is a poet, editor and the author of several fantasy novels for young people, most recently The Loblolly Boy (published in the United States as The Boy Who Could Fly and winner of the 2010 New Zealand Post Book Award for Junior Fiction), and its sequel The Loblolly Boy and the Sorcerer. James lives at Church Bay, Lyttelton Harbour and teaches at Lincoln University’s Foundation Studies and English Language Division. He has been awarded the 2012 Children’s Writer in Residence at the University of Otago.